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Are People Inequality Averse, and Do They Prefer Redistribution by the State?: Evidence from German Longitudinal Data on Life Satisfaction [PDF]

We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre-government income distribution at the regional level, to estimate the degree of inequality aversion.
Johannes Schwarze, Marco Härpfer
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Inequity Aversion Toward AI Counterparts

Scientific Reports
Abstract Human moral interactions often assume that resources should be allocated equitably, i.e., one should not take more than one’s fair share. To what extent do people apply this assumption to social AI entities? Using a 21-round Ultimatum Game, we investigated participants’ behavioral, physiological, and affective responses to fair ...
Debanjan Borthakur, Peter Diep, Jason Plaks   +2 more
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Implications of Diminishing Lifespan Marginal Utility for Valuing Equity in Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

MDM Policy & Practice
Introduction. Diminishing marginal lifespan utility (DMLU) implies that a particular lifespan increment (e.g., 1 life-year) confers lesser marginal utility if added to longer lifespans (e.g., 90 y to 91 y) than to shorter lifespans (e.g., 60 y to 61 y ...
R. Scott Braithwaite
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Reciprocity, Inequity Aversion, and Oligopolistic Competition [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2006
This paper studies how reciprocity and inequity aversion influence the behavior of firms in imperfectly competitive markets. The paper shows that if reciprocal firms compete a la Cournot, then they are able to sustain "collusive" outcomes under a positive reciprocity equilibrium.
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Stability and explanatory power of inequality aversion : an investigation of the house money effect [PDF]

, 2010
In this paper, we analyse if individual inequality aversion measured with simple experimental games depends on whether the monetary endowment in these games is either a windfall gain (“house money”) or a reward for a certain effort-related performance ...
Dannenberg, Astrid, Riechmann, Thomas, Sturm, Bodo, Vogt, Carsten   +3 more
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Exploring an Age Difference in Preschool Children’s Competitiveness Following a Competition

Frontiers in Psychology, 2018
Literature suggests that resource acquisition compels competition in young children. However, little is still known about the development of preschool children’s competitiveness. In this preliminary study, 166 children (aged 2–4 and 5–6 years) engaged in
Yu Hu, Yi Zhu
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Endowment Inequality in Common Pool Resource Games: An Experimental Analysis

Games
This work addresses whether heterogeneity in player endowments influences investment decisions in common pool resource (CPR) games, shedding light on the relationship between inequality and economic decision making.
Garrett Milam, Andrew Monaco
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Measuring multidimensional inequality and well-being: methods and an empirical application to Italian

Statistica, 2013
In this paper, focusing on the normative approach, we review and discuss the main multidimensional inequality measures and inequality-adjusted multidimensional well-being indicators.
David Aristei, Bruno Bracalente
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Risk and Inequality Aversion in Social Dilemmas [PDF]

We experimentally investigate cooperative behavior in a social dilemma situation, where the socially efficient outcome may be encouraged by risk aversion and/or inequality aversion.
Brice Magdalou, Dimitri Dubois, Phu Nguyen-Van   +2 more
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Predictors of support for state for state social welfare provision in Russia and China [PDF]

, 2017
This article analyses the determinants of support for state social welfare provision in Russia and China on the basis of a four-stage recursive model using two waves of the World Values Survey. It hypothesises that support is a function of economic self –
Munro, Neil
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